Embrace Change with abas Upgrade Strategy

Historically, ERP upgrades have been expensive, challenging, and a high risk for companies. Typically when a company makes a major or minor customization to their ERP system the upgrade path becomes incredibly difficult and costly. It is commonplace for a team of highly compensated consultants and programmers to spend months and tens of thousands of dollars making previous customizations compatible with new software releases.

The ABAS approach is easier, less expensive, and risk-free. ABAS offers an annual upgrade every fall. A typical upgrade can be performed over an evening or weekend. All customizations remain intact after the upgrade. Currently, customers are taking advantage of our latest functionality and technology while maintaining customizations made 10+ years ago.

Focus on flexibility and software modernization

abas changes with you as your products, markets, strategies and competition changes. abas makes your life easier. The multi-tiered architecture allows you to write your business rules into the system easily and adapt easily to new demands.

Companies must embrace change and see it as an opportunity rather than a threat. abas ERP allows you to stay flexible and competitive in a global environment.

Do not get locked in a Long Term Investment

abas is always state of the art and compatible with new requirements and technologies. Each year we examine and optimize 33% of the source code and include it in the annual upgrade.

In every new version of abas ERP there is added functionality to aid our clients in being more competitive.

Upgrade Risks

According to Analysts, companies tend to underestimate the effort and risk associated with an ERP upgrade. The longer a company uses and customizes their systems, the more they underestimate the risk. The risk of a project failure is severe and could endanger the entire company. For example, companies are unable to load their goods onto waiting trucks and the loss of customer satisfaction because of unreliable order execution can cost far more than the execution of the upgrade project.

On the other hand, delaying an ERP upgrade poses its own set of risks, since no features and functions are added, new regulations are ignored, and the company runs on outdated technology.

Risk can take many forms, including system stability, new technology to support the new software, end-user or organizational changes, system downtime during cutover or IT and user resource commitments.

Upgrade projects are also usually led by an inexperienced or part time project manager, which increased the risk factor.

Multi-tired architecture in abas ERP

As your company evolves, business requirements are subject to change, The inherent flexibility found in abas Business Software matches your company’s growth, letting you adapt to industry or company specific requirements without impacting the standard functions or limiting your upgrade path.

The software’s multi-tiered architecture structure makes it possible for us to guarantee users the most updated technology year-over-year.

The overall structure of abas Business Software ensures that the software’s core and database can only be changed by abas development. Due to this principle, all abas customers can carry out upgrades without taking the risk to migrate data.

abas database and abas Business Software always run on the same version and therefore ensure risk-free upgrades, high performances at all time, and new functions reliably correspond with the database. abas database is designed to fit the user’s demands and the software requirements. No administrator is needed to maintain abas database. abas database is an instrument which serves abas ERP users and not the other way around.

At any time, upgrades can be done step by step throughout various departments without touching the kernel or source code. A heavily customized system does not present any risks for abas ERP users.

User-centric workplace

Simplicity, visualization, and managing processes are key benefits when upgrading to abas ERP.

An annual abas ERP upgrade allows you to support future functionalities that will yield business benefits and provides new opportunities for integration with internal or external operations or applications. Compliance with value-chain standards, regulatory requirements, and various local regulations.

Stay competitive and add the agility to enable more-rapid business change in fast-expanding industries.

Faster response time and new automated capabilities will not only increase customer satisfaction but also the satisfaction of employees, partners, and vendors.

The Ease to integrate other applications and having fewer quality issues will help you to stay on par or keeping ahead of your competitors locally and around the world.

Reduce unnecessary operational costs and support new business processes that will lead you to success.

Keep current through a state of the art technology refresh and be less dependent on aging skills in the market.

abas ERP Upgrades include:

• New Features and Functions
• Database expansion to improve performance and memory
• Interface modifications to improve user friendliness
• New Features and Functions to comply with federal laws and regulations